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You must have been astonished at the perpetually increasing magnificence of the last seven books.Cited from Percy Bysshe Shelley,By John Addington Symonds

Uniformity is quickly noticed, and after it has been noticed for some time it is instinctively used as a working hypothesis.So used it accumulates perpetually increasing evidence of its truth, and if we except two great classes of facts, we never find any instance of its failure.The two classes of facts which are thus excepted are the acts of the human will and the miraculous element in Revelation, both of them instances of one thing, namely, the interference of the moral with the physical.…Cited from Relations Between Religion and Science, Frederick, Lord Bishop of Exeter

Let us now see how they assimilate with the character of the people by whom they are built.England is a country of perpetually increasing prosperity and active enterprise; but, for that very reason, nothing is allowed to remain till it gets old.Large old trees are cut down for timber; old houses are pulled down for the materials; and old furniture is laughed at and neglected.…Cited from The Poetry of Architecture, by John Ruskin

The day had been damp and dreary, and he had suffered from neuralgia.Doubtless the pain had acted upon his nervous system, and was accountable for his present and perpetually increasing anxiety.A little later he was fain to dismiss this supposition as untenable.…Cited from Flames, by Robert Smythe Hichens

Every year sees public bodies, in the United States as everywhere else, entering upon new fields of activity.In this country, municipal bodies, state governments, and even the Federal Government, are in this way perpetually increasing the number of those directly in their employ.The establishment of the parcel post alone must have added considerably to the total of the employes in the Postal Department.…Cited from The Trade Union Woman, by Alice Henry

His round red head, bald and shining, sat like a poached egg between the enormous spread of his shoulders.His neck, always short, grew shorter and finally disappeared; and his crisp, pink face had the air of one who finds breathing a perpetually increasing difficulty.In build Mat was very short, and very broad; and his legs were so thin that it was no wonder they were somewhat bowed beneath their load.…Cited from Boy Woodburn, by Alfred Ollivant

There was the collision of both evils -- that from the laudanum and that from the want of laudanum.The last was a state of distress perpetually increasing, the other was one which did not sensibly diminish -- no, not for a long period of months.…Cited from The Opium Habit, by Horace B. Day

There are, moreover, too many points of resemblance between the manners and education of the higher and lower classes, to admit of our finding the elements of good society in either of them.The lower orders are ignorant, from want of means of instruction; the higher, from indolence and perpetually increasing incapacity.It is besides not a little curious that, even in the bygone days of ceremonious manners, the higher classes, by whom they were practiced, were uniformly taught by those illiterate persons of the lower classes who almost alone practice the art of dancing-masters.…Cited from The Ladies' Vase, by An American Lady

In the sobriety of the closet, we inevitably assent to his conclusions; nor is it easy to conceive how a rational man and a philosopher abstractedly can entertain a doubt of the necessity of human actions.And the number of these persons is perpetually increasing; enlarged and dispassionate views of the nature of man and the laws of the universe are rapidly spreading in the world.We cannot indeed divest ourselves of love and hatred, of the sentiments of praise and blame, and the ideas of virtue, duty, obligation, debt, bond, right, claim, sin, crime, guilt, merit and desert.…Cited from Thoughts on Man, His Nature, etc, by Wm Godwin

We now have reason to think that the quantity of force acting on matter is invariable.And to this is to be added the evidence of scientific prediction, the range of which is perpetually increasing, and which would be obviously impossible if Nature were not uniform.And yet again to this is to be added that this uniformity does not consist in a vast number of separate and independent laws, but that these laws already form a system with one another, and that that system is daily becoming more complete.…Cited from Relations Between Religion and Science, Frederick, Lord Bishop of Exeter

On these occasions, they sometimes approached each other; and several little skirmishes had occurred, but none of any importance.As the Spaniards seemed to be perpetually increasing the number of these gun-boats and armed launches, the British commander in chief thought it necessary to give them a timely check.So that, notwithstanding the occasional civilities of their epistolary correspondence, such are often the necessary deceptions of war, that hostilities were, perhaps, all the time, meditating by both parties.…Cited from Life of Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vol. I (of 2), by James Harrison

As experience increases the regularity of the action of the derivative force is more and more observable, and then arises the notion of a law or rule regulating the action of every such force.And a perpetually increasing number of phenomena are brought under this head, and are shown to be, not the immediate results of self-originating action, but the more or less remote results of derivative action governed by laws.And even a large number of those phenomena, which specially belong to life and living creatures, in whom alone, if anywhere, the self-originating action is to be found, are observed to be subject to law and therefore to be the issue not of self-originating but of derivative action.…Cited from Relations Between Religion and Science, Frederick, Lord Bishop of Exeter

He appears to have written his Troilus and Cressida partly with a view to degrade, and hold up to contempt, the heroes of Homer; and he has even disfigured the pure, heroic affection which the Greek poet has painted as existing between Achilles and Patroclus with the most odious imputations.And, as he could not sustain an heroic character throughout, so neither could he construct a perfect plot, in which the interest should be perpetually increasing, and the curiosity of the spectator kept alive and in suspense to the last moment.…Cited from Thoughts on Man, His Nature, etc, by Wm Godwin

He had in great measure retired from society, and lived more and more in the quietness of his little estate among the Sabine hills.Life was still full of vivid interest; but books were more than ever a second world to him, and, like Virgil, he was returning with a perpetually increasing absorption to the Greek philosophies, which had been the earliest passion of his youth.…Cited from Latin Literature, by J. W. Mackail

The earth is the great labour-savings' bank, and the value to man of all other machines is in the direct ratio of their tendency to aid him in increasing his deposites in that only bank whose dividends are perpetually increasing, while its capital is perpetually doubling.That it may continue for ever so to do, all that it asks is that it shall receive back the refuse of its produce, the manure; and that it may do so, the consumer and the producer must take their places by each other.…Cited from The Slave Trade, Domestic And Foreign, By H. Carey

Disbelieve if you choose and Religion will do nothing but perpetually repeat its warnings and add that your disbelief has lowered you in the scale of being.So too Science gives promises; it promises, to the race rather than to the individual, life on easier conditions, and of greater length; fewer pains, fewer diseases; perpetually increasing comforts; perpetually increasing power over nature.And Science is sure to keep the promises.…Cited from Relations Between Religion and Science, Frederick, Lord Bishop of Exeter

Who, as he contemplates the perpetually increasing joy and brightening exaltation of a soul restored to the image of God, becoming through unnumbered years more and more assimilated to its glorious Head, would not participate in a work so transporting in its results?Cited from The Faithful Steward, by Sereno D. Clark

Thus we travelled on four days with malevolence perpetually increasing, and without any endeavour but to outvie each other in superciliousness and neglect; and when any two of us could separate ourselves for a moment we vented our indignation at the sauciness of the rest.Cited from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes, Vol. IV, by Samuel Johnson

Their commander lost no time in forming their serried ranks into a phalanx of lancers, few indeed at first, but perpetually increasing as ship after ship of the little flotilla ran ashore, or, having more deliberately moored their barks, landed their men, and joined their companions.The cloud which had been raised by the conflict was now driven to leeward before the wind, and the strait exhibited only the relics of the combat.…Cited from The Waverley Novels, Vol. XII, by W. Scott

Such, then, is the cancer preying upon mankind.In countries of political equality and economical inequality the capitalist regime, the faulty distribution of wealth, at once restrains and precipitates the birth-rate by perpetually increasing the wrongful apportionment of means.On one side are the rich folk with "only" sons, who continually increase their fortunes; on the other, the poor folk, who, by reason of their unrestrained prolificness, see the little they possess crumble yet more and more.…Cited from Fruitfulness, by Emile Zola